Look who's popped in

By Jo Printz

Central Victorian ceramicist Maria Vanhees doesn't have her own studio. This month she's made the most of an opportunity to work in a pop-up studio at Latrobe University's Visual Art Centre in Bendigo.

We often have a romantic notion of the writer plugging away at their craft, all alone in a garret or (less romantically) an office perfecting their prose, or an artist madly creating in a studio somewhere, paint flecks and canvases along the walls.

But what if you're an artist without your own studio?

Maria Vanhees is a Central Victorian ceramicist who usually shares a little studio space at the visual arts department of Latrobe University, but this month she's been enjoying a pop-up studio all of her own at the university's Visual Arts Centre in View Street, Bendigo.

She's even had people coming to watch her at work and participate in some weekend workshops.